Sixty-three-year-old PJ Halliday learns his high school sweetheart is suddenly single at the same time he learns he's become the legal guardian of two children he's never met. Why shouldn't they join him, his estranged daughter, and a death-predicting cat named Pancakes on a cross-country road trip to woo his lost love? So many reasons! But for all his faults, PJ is an irresistible personality, and this road trip is both darkly comic and deeply moving.